Uygurs 'not being squeezed'

The Chinese government has never squeezed the Uygur people out of Xinjiang, an expert said yesterday.

Some overseas media have claimed that the Chinese government "deliberately immigrated massive numbers of Han people into Xinjiang to change its demographic composition".

"I have noticed some articles and books published abroad are based on wrong figures," said Yang Shengmin, professor of Minzu University of China.